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Canadian hospitals outside Canada

Canadians also operated hospitals outside Canada, usually these were military hospitals but at least one served fishermen on the Atlantic
coast. Hospitals operated abroad by Canadian religious missions are not included.

"[The First World War hospitals] eventually reached the following in number; 16 general, 10 stationary, 7 special, and 8 convalescent hospitals. Some of the stationary and convalescent hospitals were eventually converted into general hospitals." (From: Official History of the Canadian Forces in the Great War: The Medical Services, by Sir Andrew McPhail, 1925.) There is a very useful listing of them HERE.

In 2012 LAC published an online Guide to Sources Relating to Units of the Canadian Expeditionary Force: Canadian Army Medical Corps. It is available HERE. There is a another useful list of hospitals etc and their various locations HERE.

You can search for possible library locations of the books you are interested in through OCLC's WorldCat but should note that not all libraries list their holdings in WorldCat!

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The Military Convalescent Hospital Woodcote Park Epsom. Qualis Photo Company, [Epsom?] 1917. Includes one page with a short history of this First World War convalescent hospital followed by 12 tipped in 6" x 4" photographs. There was a Canadian Convalescent Hospital at Woodcote Park from 5 September 1915 - 30 June 1919. http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/560362668

Canadian Field Ambulance No. 5

Noyes, Frederick Walter. Stretcher bearers ... at the double! : History of the Fifth Canadian field ambulance which served overseas during the great war of 1914-1918. Toronto : Printed and bound by the Hunter-Rose Co., [1937]. A digitised version is available at University of Calgary.http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/35155497

Diary of the Eleventh : being a record of the XIth Canadian Field Ambulance (Western Universities) Feb. 1916-May 1919.
[S.l. : s.n., 19-?]. 128 p. : ill. http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/505949805

Canadian General Hospital, No. 1

Cameron, Kenneth. History of No. 1 General Hospital, Canadian Expeditionary Force; No. 1 Canadian General Hospital, 1914-1919; with a Record of the Work of the Medical Division. Sackville, N. B.: Tribune Press, 1938. . Includes a record of the work of the Medical Division by Norman B. Gwyn and a note upon the treatment of fracture of the femur, by Fred J. Tees. http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/14753277

Pirie, Howard Alexander . No. 3 Canadian General Hospital (McGill) in France, 1915, 1916, 1917. Views Illustrating Life & Scenes in the Hospital with a Short Description of Its Origin, Organization and Progress . Middlesborough, Eng: Engraved and Printed by Hood, 1918. http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/42240418

Canadian General Hospital, No..4 (University of Toronto)

Mackenzie, John Joseph, and Kathleen Cuffe Mackenzie. Number 4 Canadian Hospital; The Letters of Professor J.J. Mackenzie from the Salonika Front. Toronto: The Macmillan Company of Canada Limited, 1933. http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/20974978

Hyatt, A. M. J., and Nancy Geddes Poole. Battle for Life: The History of No. 10 Canadian Stationary Hospital and No. 10 Canadian General Hospital in Two World Wars. Waterloo, Ont: Laurier Centre for Military, Strategic, and Disarmament Studies, Wilfrid Laurier University, 2004.http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/56920918

Adami, John George. War story of the Canadian Army Medical Corps. Toronto : Musson Book Co., [1918 ]
Only volume 1 was ever published, covering 1914-1915. http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/14786090

General

Bell, F. McKelvey. The First Canadians in France; The Chronicle of a Military Hospital in the War Zone. Toronto: McClelland, Goodchild & Stewart, 1917. ("The pill of fact herein is but thinly coated with the sugar of fiction." Preface. Fictionalized memoirs.) http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/12034619

Snell, Arthur Evans. The C.A.M.C.; With the Canadian [Army Medical] Corps During the Last Hundred Days of the Great War. Ottawa: Acland, 1924. (Based on materials and maps supplied by the Historical Section of the General Staff.) A digitised version is available at the University of Calgary.http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/657353

Hospital Ship Fund

National Committee of Women for Patriotic Service, and Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire. The History of the "Hospital Ship Fund": Which Was the Imperial Gift of the Women of Canada to the British Army and Navy, 1914. Canada: National Committee of Women for Patriotic Service, 1915. (Digitised version available at University of Toronto.) http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/42939244

Joint War Committee of the British Red Cross Society and the Order of St. John of Jerusalem in England

Reports by the Joint War Committee and the Joint War Finance Committee of the British Red Cross Society and the Order of St. John of Jerusalem in England on voluntary aid rendered to the sick and wounded at home and abroad and to British prisoners of war, 1914-1919 : with appendices. Naval & Military Press in association with the Imperial War Museum. Dept. of Printed Books, 2009. (Reprint. Originally published: London : H.M.S.O., 1921.) http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/18421489